From the New York Times: A federal judge in Washington temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Thursday from maintaining more than 2,000 members of the National Guard deployed to the city’s streets, finding the city was likely to succeed in arguing the deployment was illegal.
Judge Jia M. Cobb of Federal District Court, a Biden appointee, wrote in a 61-page opinion that the deployment, which began in August, appeared to be illegal for a variety of reasons, including limits on the president’s authority to assert total control over the local D.C. National Guard, as well as concerns over the city’s rights to self-governance.
Those concerns were compounded, she wrote, by the fact that more than 1,000 members of the force deployed to Washington are from other states, and that the Trump administration had taken steps to establish a semi-permanent command structure, with an eye to keeping troops in the city well into next year.
She paused her ruling for three weeks, to allow time for the administration to remove the troops, as well as to appeal her decision.
Opinion – https://t.co/R8Sccw1DTb
— Susie Moore ⚾️🌻🐶 (@SmoosieQ) November 20, 2025
ABOUT THIS JUDGE: Jia M. Cobb, 45, was nominated by Joe Biden in June 2021 to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was recommended for the position by House Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and was confirmed by the Senate in October 2021 in a 52-45 vote.
BREAKING: Jia Michelle Cobb, a Biden-appointed judge, has just issued an order HALTING Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in D.C. pic.twitter.com/NDzFzgrlrD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 20, 2025
A Biden-appointed U.S. District Court Judge in Washington, D.C., Jia M. Cobb, has ruled that the Trump administration’s deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital is illegal and has ordered the deployment to end immediately.
Bret Baier: “The judge… pic.twitter.com/FTAlkSE072
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) November 21, 2025
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Breaking News: A federal judge found that the presence of more than 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., was unlawful. https://t.co/gDrb7GXk1H
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 20, 2025
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